Neuronia

I'm not the one with "lemon chicken in mouf" all the time "Smallz" ies!

Epic pics from Masque are epic.
Thanks so much, it makes this more fun already!

Agreed.

You can get one Alignment Merit for 50 Reward Merits = 1 Sister Psyche SF or 1 Lady Grey + 1 Renault. Redside gets rooked but that's about two hours of game time and two days of grinding alignment missions for your second Alignment Merit.

Now...you can get 3 Empyrean Merits per day, in about an hour or two depending on your team speed. Some teams just blitz the BAF and Lambda while others struggle with basic aspects. C'est la vie.

I'd wager that it will cost about 25 or so Empyrean Merits for "the good stuff" meaning PvP IOs or Purples. That's about a week of grinding trials, in which case you're probably clearing several hundred million (?) just by selling your crafted drops anyway.

One question remains unanswered:

Why oh why won't the Devs just put the damned high-end shinies IN A STORE at a set inf price? I imagine they don't want to elminate the markets completely, or they don't want to set an actual 'cap' in prices by making, say, a Grav Anchor worth 100,000,000 or whichever. They could survey the Market and state their prices as per the EQ price, but that seems...like a little too rational and balanced for the Dev team. No offense to them, but they have taken the path of most resistance most of the time.

Do you have the Immob? It used to be super broken on Warshades, lasting well beyond two seconds. That and Starless Step might give you mini-sandboxing in some maps,

Sounds like a great job for Detention Field, Sonic Cage or Confuse powers, the latter which does not generate aggro.

Looking forward to the new trial, if only to gain iXP in all my slots.

As long as we get challenging stuff to fight, I welcome the grind ahead and the additional powers.

Bubblers can be a massive pain in smaller Arena maps. You get to KB people for Stalker spikes, Force Bubble detoggles non-stop but has a nice repel factor and the ranged/end drain resist isn't too bad. That's a really controlled environment though with two Empaths and a bunch of Blasters.

VEATs are nice. I just finished my Fortunata for Boot Camp,44 pts of KB protect + Indomitable Will = 54, nice range on Blasts thanks to Centrioles, Mind Link, good perception and some nice status effects. Yum.

This confirms my testing last night.
On a lark, I went into RV with my Ill/Emp Controller and fired off Tier 3 Barrier (+Def/+Res). My Res to all (with Temp Invuln on) went to 50% and my Defense was around 18-19%, noting I do have some +Defense slotted already.

Anyone else miss the days Fortunatas never got hit?

Not to get too off topic, but you have to wonder if ingame "authorities" have noticed THE GIANT FLIPPIN' ROBOTS ACCOMPANIED BY NOTABLE PRAETORIANS INVADING PARAGON!!!! One thing I've always disliked about these things is cities look the same afterwards...would be nice seeing a broken Atlas Park for a few weeks.

Golden Girl, me and 6 other people trying to form the latest trial.

My point was more to how sustainable it is.
If you split three million by 15, that gives you 200,000 accounts.
Now...chances are there AREN'T 200,000 accounts. I'd gauge it at closer 110,000 to 125,000, more or less and declining. That isn't terrible by any means, but you'd have to think they can't keep all these humans employed and new content coming out for free for an indefinite period.

Maybe F2P with bonuses isn't a bad idea?

I'd say it's more skill + build personally. There really isn't that much luck once a good team is against a good team, you either lock and drop or you don't. You either phase and pop greens or you don't.

As to your questions above, don't think the KB powers DR themselves (much) if at all. I know my Mind/Cold's Levitate is around 30ish + and it doesn't decrease all that much in PvP, but since 41 points of KB is DRd to around 10.7 in a zone/Arena, Levitate probably drops to 9-11?

For the movement speeds, I remember them saying in I13 Beta that they wanted powers to be close to Sprint + while under TS, but it's been awhile and those forums are long gone...

For Defense, pretty sure you have lower Defense in PvP to start with (that changed around I6 if I recall) and you get crushed by DR pretty badly. I know my SO slotted SR goes to 23% or so Defense in RV (actually let me load the client dum dee dum...)

Ok so my admittedly not well-slotted Spine SR has +99% enhancement to jump speed from basic IOs and 30% Defense Range/Melee/AoE from Red Fortunes and Gifts of the Ancients...

...Entering Warburg...

23% to same Defense values
71.30 mph from 14.32 base, 22.81 Hurdle, 62.07 SJ, and 3 x 0.72 movement bonus...

Outside in Kings Row...

78.18 mph Jumping from 14.32 base, 24.37 hurdle, 70.98 SJ and 3 x 0.72 movement bonus...